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FRANK N. OLUTE, OF LEES SUMMIT, MISSOURI.

SULKY- PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,582, dated March 4, 1884:.

Application filed December 1, 1883. (No model.)

- citizen of the United States, and a resident of -Lees Summit, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sulky-Plows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, 1 which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw- .ings, which form a part of this specification,

and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved sulky-plow. Fig. 2 is'a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view with the wheel on that side removed. Fig. 4 is aside view.

-of the side opposite to that shown in Fig. 8,

with the wheel on that side removed, and Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of the clip or self-adjusting bearing in which the plow-beam is pivotally secured.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to sulky-plows; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the plow-beam of my improved sulky-plow, which is provided near its front end'with a wheel-colter, A. J ournalcd in suitable bearings immediately behind the plowshare proper, and taking the place of the landside thereof, is a wheel, B,'inclined at such an angle that its bearing edge or face will run against the side of the furrow cut by the plowshare B, this wheel serving to perform the work of the landside in steadying the plow, and also serving as a friction wheel or roller, thereby causing the plow to run much easier. The arrangement of this wheel will readily be understood by reference to Fig. 2 of the draw- 1ngs.. V

0 represents the frame proper, upon which the seat D is secured; and E represents the frame or arch, upon the extremities of which the wheels F arejournaled in the manner hereinafter described, the outwardly-curved end portions of the said arch'passing through and being supported in suitable bearings, 0, upon the lower rear corners of the frame 0.

enceto the drawings that the front portion of the main frame 0 is some distance above the plow-beam A when the latter is in its normal position. Now, by raising the lever G onehalf of the distance which it moves along the segmental rack H, the plow-beam proper, or the forward portion ofthe plow-beam will beraised so as to elevate'the point of the plowshare out of the soil and cause the weight of the plow to rest upon the wheel B,which, as before stated,

runs with very little friction; To raise the plow entirely from the ground the operator raises the lever G to its highest point, the forward part of the plow-beam striking against the forward part of the frame O,when the lever will raise the plow entirely from the ground.

Upon the left-hand portion of the arch E are secured bearings I and a segmental rack, J, for the purpose hereinafter specified. Within the bearings I is journaled one end of a curved or crank-shaped stub-axle, K, upon the outer extremity of which one of the wheels, F, is pivotally secured. Upon the crank-shaped stub-axle K, between the wheel F and the segmental rack J, is rigidly secured a lever, L,

adapted to engage with the segmental rack J, r

so as to be held in its adjusted position. It will be seen that by'this arrangemenh while the right-hand wheel isrunning in one of the furrows previously cut, the left-hand wheel,- which runs upon the land, can be raised or adjusted at any desired height, so as to allow'the frame of the'plow and the plow proper to run in perfectly horizontal planes,

while when it is desired to have the wheels IOO ' (N J I sheets-snarl;

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, v BRUSH TRIMMING MAGHINE. I No 294,583. 1 Patented Mar. 4, 1884. 

